Caddo Pyramids

This is a street view of the Red River Valley guys circa 1200 ad, with an emphasis on the peculiarly excellent agricultural capabilities of the Mississippi Valley people. Corn, Squash, and Beans.  Squash is a shortened form of askuatasquash, which is northeastern American Indian, but the plants themselves don’t look to be anything that we can get in the store today. The old seeds produce something that looks like a cross between a pumpkin and a zucchini. It was exceedingly rare back then to find an agricultural civilization among the tribes of North America, most being hunter/gatherer style and nomadic.  The Caddoan Mississippians grew crops and irrigated them too and lived in large cities of wood beehive-shaped houses and enormous earthen pyramids every bit as impressive as Chitchen Itza or La Venta.  The culture’s rise and fall are mysterious, because they may have lacked a writing system, other archeologists see similarities to the Olmec, which in turn have a pictographic language system that relates to the Mayans.  Much work still remains to be done in regards to these cultures and the ancient archaeological sites throughout America, there's a lot of unanswered questions.  It’s a fascinating field of study. & you can find more about what happened to this culture in this super cool book Kado: Lost Treasure of the Kadohadacho. amzn.to/2NhwMN2 See that wasn’t even smooth.   Have some boilerplate. “As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases”